Couch and couch-bed.



F. J. QUINGY. GOUGH AND COUGH BED.

APPLIUATION FILED APR. 1a, 1912.

1,089,723, Patented Mar. 10, 1914 .Couch-Beds,

FREDERICK J. QUINCY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ENGLANDER SPRING BED COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

COUCH AND COUCH-BED.

Patented Mar. 10, 1914,. Serial No. 691,593.

To all whom t may conce/m:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK J. Quincy, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Couches and of which the following is a speeilication.

This invention relates to couches and couch beds, the object of the invention being to provide an improved structure of this class in which the legs may be readily folded so that the couch may occupy a small space when not in use or for shipment and in which the legs will be rigidly supported when the art-icle is in use and prevented from slippage along the side bar when the couch is raised on its end.

`One of the objects of the present invention is the provision in connection with suitable supporting ineans of improved folding or swinging legs which may be readily folded into parallel relation with the spring and which in either of their folded or vertical positions will be prevented from shifting lengthwise of their supporting means, usually in the form of a side-bar, and which improvement will also permit the folding legs to be locked in one of their positions.

l/Vith those forms of folding legs which are swingingly supported by a side bar so that they may be folded into a horizontal position, and which., in order to fold them or to posit-ion them in an upright position, are shiftable relatively to the side bar such legs, when the couch or divan has been lifted endwise or stood upon its end, have slipped or shifted downward on the side bar and, owing to the weight thereof, injury has resulted to the person handling the structure. By means of the present improvement, however, owing to the manner in which the legs are connected with the side bar, they may be shifted to permit the swinging thereof but they cannot shift or drop along the side bar when the structure is set upon its end.

ln the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional. view of one of the leg couplings; Fig. 8 is a transverse section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, with a section of one of the side rails therein and illustrates the socket when moved into its horizontal position to carry the leg into its folded position; Fig. il; is a perspective view of one end of a side bar or rail; and Fig. 5 illustrates the improvement arranged to lock the leg in its upright position.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the figures of the drawings.

For the purpose of illustration the present improvement is shown applied to a conventional divan including end angle bars 2 for supporting the spring 3. Connected to the end bars 2, at each end thereof, is a supporting bracket 1- secured, as at 5, to the depending webs G of the end bars 2. Each bracket includes a cylindrical socket 7 provided with an internal stop or lug S. A pair of opposite sockets receive the ends of a side rail 9 provided with recesses 10 in the ends adapted to engage the lugs 8. By this simple means it will be obvious that when the rails 9 are inserted into the sockets and engage the stops or lugs 8 the rails are coupled in the blocks and prevented from turning therein. The side rails are spaced below the spring along its side edges. The rails 9 support foldable legs of improved construction, and as the legs are precisely alike a description of one will suilice for all.

Each of the foldable legs 11 comprises a sleeve 12 mounted for rotation on the side rail 9. This sleeve is provided with a socket 13 in which the end of the leg 1l is secured by a pin 14 or other suitable fastening means. Each of these sleeves 1Q is provided with an L-shaped or bayonet slot 15 through one side and with a radial slot 1G in the opposite side. Extending from one side of the sleeve 12, (see Figs. 1, 2 and 3), and partly covering the slot 16 is a hood 17, and formed within the sleeve, adjacent to the inner end of the slot 1G, is a pocket or depression 18 with which the interior of the hood 17 communicates. The pocket 18 is somewhat longer than the longitudinal portion pf the slot 15, as shown in Fig. 2. The opening 16 being located opposite the slot 15 provides means for the insertion of a bolt 19, the opening being of suilicient width to receive the head 20 of the bolt. The rail 9 is provided with a transverse aperture 9.1 through which the bolt 19 is designed to be passed. By this construction, when the sleeve 'l2 is disposed over the rail 9, with the transverse aperture 21 thereof in alinement with the slot 16 and radial portion of the slot 15, the bolt 19 may be inserted therethrough with its head opposite the interior of the hood 17, and then when the sleeve is rotated upon the rail the head of the'bolt will pass into the recess 18, while the threaded end of the bolt will project through the aperture 15 in position to receive a wing nut Q2. By this simple means the sleeve may be readily coupled in position to support the leg portion 11 in vertical position with the bolt 19 in the bottom of the radial port-ion of the slot 16, as shown in Fig. 1, or by loosening the wing nut the sleeve, together with its leg, may be rotated one-fourth of a revolution on the side rail to dispose the leg in a horizontal or lparallel position relatively to the spring 3, and thus dispose the legs in folded position. 1When the legs are disposed in vertical position, the sleeve can be moved longitudinally of the rail to move the longitudinal portion of the slot 15 over the bolt and thus lock the sleeve with the leg in vertical position, as will be obvious.

In Fig. 5 the sleeve 12 is provided with a pair of L-shaped slots 30 and 31 opposite each other, and both at one side of the leg 18, and in this form of the improvement when the leg is in its perpendicular position the sleeve may be shifted lengthwise of the side bar so that the longitudinal part 32 of the slots will receive the bolt and so lock the leg against swinging movement, while the radial portions 33 of the slots will permit the leg to be folded.

This improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured and strongly constructed, and the improved couch may be readily shipped in knocked down condition by releasing the side bars or rails from the stops 8 at one end of the structure and withdrawing the rails 9.

It will be observed that in all of the forms shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the radial slot 16 communicates with the pocket 18, which as hereinbefore stated is slightly longer t-han the portion 15 of the bayonet shaped slot, so that while the radial portion 16 and the pocket 18 form in a sense a bayonet shaped slot yet they are of different form from the slot 15 and its radial portion. In the form of the structure shown in said Figs. 1, 2 and 3, it will be observed that the pocket 18 is just above the sleeve 13.

In the form shown in Fig. 5 in which the bayonet shaped slots are located to permit the leg to be locked in a vertical position, although the mere repositioning of these slots will permit it to be locked in a horizontal position, it will be observed that both bayonet shaped slots are to one side of the sleeve 13 in which form of the improvement the hood 17 is not necessary.

I claim as my invention:

1. 1n a structure of the class described having side-bars, rotatable legs provided with sleeves mounted for rotation upon said bars each of said sleeves having a pair o radial slots at opposite points, a bolt located in position to work in said radial slots and means engaging said bolt for clamping the sleeve upon the bar, whereby when the bolt is within said radial slots the movement of the sleeve lengthwise of the bar is prevented.

2. 1n a structure of the class described having side bars, rotatable legs provided with sleeves mounted for rotation upon said bars, each of said sleeves having a bayonetshaped slot therein and at another side thereof a radial slot, and a bolt carried by said bar and projecting into said slots.

3. ln a structure of the class described having side-bars, rotatable legs provided with sleeves mounted for rotation upon said bars each of said sleeves having a bayonet shaped slot therein, and a bolt carried by said bar and having a part projecting into said slot for securing the sleeve to the bar one portion of said slot permitting rotary movement of the sleeve and another part thereof preventing such rotary movement and said bayonet shaped slot permitting only a limited movement of the lsleeve lengthwise on the bar.

1. ln a structure of the class described having side-bars, legs provided with sleeves rotatable on said side-bars each of said sleeves having a bayonet shaped slotl effective to permit rotation and sliding movement on its side-bar, and also having a radial slot terminating in a pocket and a bolt carried by said side-bar and coperating with said slots, whereby the leg may be rotated and slid to lock the same against movement.

5. ln a structure of the class described having side-bars, rotatable legs provided with sleeves rotatable on said side-bars each of said sleeves having a pair of radial slots each terminating in a pair of lengthwise extending openings, and a bolt carried by said side-bar and cooperating with said openings and slots, whereby the leg may be rotated and slid to lock the same against movement in a predetermined position.

6. In a structure of the class described having side-bars, rotatable legs provided with sleeves rotatable on said side-bars, each of said sleeves having a effective to permit rotation and sliding movement on its side-bar and also having opposite thereto a radial slot, said sleeve also having a laterally extendinghood adjacent to said radial slot, and a bolt carried by said side-bar and cooperating with said slots whereby the leg may be rotated and slid to lock the same against movement.

7. ln a structure of the class described having side-bars, legs provided with sleeves bayonet-shaped slot etY mounted for rotation upon said bars, each I ally projecting hood adjacent to one of said of said sleeves having a radial slot, and a slots, and clamping bolts carried by said laterally projecting hood, and a clamping l bar, one coperating with each pair of said bolt carried by Said bar and projecting slots.

5 through said slot. Signed at 1821 Park Row Bldg., New 15 In a structure of the class described York, N. Y., this 16th day of April, 1912. having side-bars, legs provided with sleeves FREDERICK J. (JUINCY. mounted for rotation upon said bars, each Vitnessesr of said sleeves having a pair of differently F. E. Boren, 10 formed slots at opposite points and a later- JOHN B. MCG'UIRE.

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